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Friday, August 8, 2014

What I Did This Summer

Every now and then, everyone indulges in a shameless self publicity. Am I one of those? Yep, I am today. While our blog has mainly been about our travels and interweaving Kat's photography into the posts, this time I am going to talk about some of my activities.

Ah yes, the lifestyle of full time RV'ers: It isn't always about workcamping and discharging the black water tank. Actually, that is merely a tiny part of it. The reason we choose this lifestyle is to stop and smell the roses; we engage with nature and thoroughly enjoy the places that most people are too busy to even detect. The 2nd component of that enjoyment is the analysis of the experiences that we partake in. Kat does this by emptying the contents of her camera to her hard drive and editing her pictures until they become art.

I likewise have a process in which to relive what we experience. I am doing this by writing fiction. The scenery and people around me either become a story or drive me to include them (or a facsimile of them) into a narrative.

In the past, I have embarked on the process of writing fiction novels. But when one lives the hectic life of a career, house payment, keeping up with the Jones's etc., It is easy to become sidetracked and lose focus on your story. Kat has often become frustrated with me for starting and not finishing a book. But now with the advent of e-books and self publishing, staying focused is no longer such a challenge for me. I have also opted to modify my strategy: instead of attempting to author the gigantic, monolithic, 'War and Peace' sized piece of literature, I have chosen to write novellas. These short stories can then be used as a collection.

This change of strategy has paid dividends: I have already published three short stories on Amazon. Two of these stories are part of a serial publication that I have named 'The Pale Horse Saga'. In literature, beginning with The Bible, the symbol of the pale horse has been synonymous with a deliverer of death.

I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.Revelation 6:8

This is a series about a secretive vigilante group who decide to take on the vicious men in power that believe themselves to be 'above the law'. This group recruits the surviving victims of the atrocities of the wicked and trains them as weapons to bring them down.

I thoroughly enjoyed penning these stories and continue to do so: Volume 3 is 75% complete. But, more joy exists when others share in it.

I would love nothing more than having my peers, my compadres (in exploration) partake in my work and provide feedback.

Hence, I invite you, encourage you and just short of 'beg' you to download these free e-books, read them and provide an honest review. If you enjoy it, hurray!!! More are sure to come soon. If you feel the need to scrape your eyeballs free from the shrapnel of my prose, then, please, feel free to roast my work verbally and literally, if you wish.

Below are the links. Did I mention that they are free. In fact, you can also buy one and get one free. If you wish, you can buy them at 50% off, since half of nothing is still nothing. But this price is for a limited time, so don't hesitate, get them right away.